A month-long celebration of queer creativity and culture

A cornerstone of Sydney's Pride Month calendar, Pride Fest offers a month of dazzling works and moving stories that celebrate the astounding talent of the LGBTQIA+ community

June 2025

Work up a sweat every day in June to raise funds for life-changing support services for rainbow communities in Australia

Sunday 1st June
1st June – 30th June

UNITY: Leather & Fetish Social – Where CommUNITY Comes Together. Pride Month Edition

ALL WELCOME | ALL FETISH | FREE ENTRY 

Join us for UNITY, a social event that celebrates the full spectrum of our diverse and wonderful community! This is a night for ALL—all fetishes, all gender expressions, all pronouns. Whether you’re into leather, rubber, pup play, or exploring new kinks, this is your space to connect, bond, and celebrate together. While UNITY is proudly presented by Sydney Leather Men Inc., this event is for everyone. We welcome our friends from the rubber, pup, and evolving fetish communities to come together in a safe and welcoming space. Let’s celebrate PRIDE the way we do best—united, unapologetic, and together.

Polo Lounge, Oxford Hotel
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM: Low music for easy conversations. 9:30 PM onwards: Music lifts a little bit to keep the energy flowing.

June 7 @ 7:00 pm - 11:30 pm

Family Zone at the Rainbow Precinct is back for Sydney Pride 2025. Each year Family Zone caters to over 200 families and their children making it a fun rainbow-filled day out for the kids and carers alike. Featuring drag queen story-time, face painting, crafting activities and goodie bags, the event is free (registration link) and there’s even a free 15 minute massage for any stressed out grown-ups!

Saturday 14th June
Where: East Sydney Community Centre
Time: 10am – 3pm

Walking Tour

Macquarie Street was laid out by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810. The decisions made along this street – by religious organisations, the state and the medical profession – have had great consequences for queer people since colonial times.

For Pride Month (1–30 June), Museums of History NSW curator Dr Tuan Nguyen will lead a history walk down Macquarie Street, exploring stories of queer people who walked along the same path: from same-sex relationships between convicts at the Hyde Park Barracks, to the first female Mitchell Librarian, Ida Leeson (who was in a committed lesbian relationship with Florence Birch for over 50 years), and bushranger Andrew George Scott (aka Captain Moonlite), whose late-19th-century criminal career involved The Mint and the Water Police Court – and many more.

14 June 2025. 10am- 11.30, 12.30-2.pm, 2.30-4.pm

Cost: $40 general, $32 MHNSW members

Painting the nude

Tap Gallery 6th June

Oxford Street Studio class with professional teacher and male model.

All materials provided.

BYO drinks

Saturday 7th June
Where: Bookshop Darlinghurst
Time: 4pm – 6pm

Saturday 14th June

Learn some Safety tips for when you’re out and about. LGBTI participants and allies. Topics Include:
Defence against weapons especially knifes, Basic Strikes, Blocks, Ground Defence, Ways to escape

SMS 0411 808 451 to book a place
Prediction and Prevention of Violence

Tuesday 10th June
Where: Erskinville Town Hall
Time: 6:30pm – 7:30pm

Calling all human Pets, Pups & Handlers or those who adore them - Pup Pride Is Back! HAUS OF SAVVY proudly presents Dog Haus Pup Pride... with special guest DJ MaxxxyT. Pup Pride at The Dog Haus is all about diversity, inclusion and celebrating the puppy within all of us. So if you are a new pup with not much gear or a fully geared up, trained and ready to bork out loud, then we invite you to come and show your Pup Pride.

With $12 Long Ice Teas all night long and Happy Hour Drinks from 6pm to 7pm.
Online Presale Tickets $20
Door Tickets $30

Sunday 22nd June
Where: Stonewall Hotel, Cocktail Bar
Time: 5pm – 10pm